But I’ve truly been stunned at the way tiny shifts in the direction and/or height of the light source, and/or the horizontal level of the coin, can make details suddenly appear… or vanish. No matter how well a given photo may turn out, fiddling with the light almost always reveals something that didn’t seem to be there before.
But this LDS D2 reverse coin takes it to a new level. It’s been a total PITA this weekend, especially since I found I have two more of whatever mystery VAM it is.
The 8 different bits and pieces of scribbles seen below, each one fairly distinctive in its own right, are the result of about a dozen different photos. The most that any one shot showed was 5, but not all were as clear as they are here. I thought perhaps focusing on one different fragment at a time and going through the scribbles guide over and over would do the trick. I just hoped it wouldn’t have to do it all 8 times.
Yes, I do have a bad case of OVID (Obsessive VAM Identification Disorder).
And no, it didn’t work.
But I do feel better for having tried, even though I knew while I was doing it that a weekend was being wasted on coins that are very likely to stay in my “What Is This?” box until they are released back into the coin ocean.
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- scribbles C-D.jpg (236.4 KiB) Viewed 2036 times
I'll send close-ups tonight.
